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I'm quite happy with my Samsung TV - picture quality is great. The remote is a terrible piece of shit, and I disabled the "Smart" TV features the moment that t

by eric_h 10y ago

I'm quite happy with my Samsung TV - picture quality is great. The remote is a terrible piece of shit, and I disabled the "Smart" TV features the moment that thing showed be a goddamn ad, but as a front end for my Apple TV/Playstation 4 it's quite good.

woobar 10y ago
If you don't mind me asking - how did you assert the quality of the picture? Did you use professional calibration or run some tests yourself?
- eric_h 10y ago
  Haha, certainly nothing so scientific. The picture just looks good to me, and compared with other TVs that I saw on display it was better than a number of the other options that were both cheaper and more expensive.
dawnerd 10y ago
Except you can't fully disable ads unless they've patched it in the last 6 or so months. I had a very long back and forth with them about it and they kept denying it until finally admitting that it was impossible to disable. Worse, they were using the notification bar to advertise gamefly. Not cool. Keep in mind the TV I had was their flagship first gen 4k tv. There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.
- merb 10y ago
  > There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv. there is no excuse for putting ads on any tv without explicitly state it.
- eric_h 10y ago
  I bought a Samsung 4k TV ~1 year ago, and turning off the Smart TV features (smart hub, or whatever they called it) most definitely turned off the ads. I'm not actually getting 4k video out of my TV, (since neither the apple tv or playstation support it), but I'm not terribly concerned about that (as I can't tell the difference at the distance I sit from my television). I wanted a dumb TV anyway, but costco didn't have any at the size I was looking for when I purchased it.
  - dawnerd 10y ago
    Sounds like they may have fixed the options then. Before if you opted out of everything it would basically just ignore it. My solution was to just disconnect it from the internet. I haven't used their interface since and haven't had a need to since I have an nvidia shield which works wonderfully.
fucking_tragedy 10y ago
Holy shit, your appliance you paid for shows you ads. I thought ads on phones were bad 7 years ago. Wow.
- eric_h 10y ago
  Yeah, I was pretty miffed that my brand new $2k TV was showing me ads. Fortunately I didn't actually want a "Smart" TV, so I was content just turning that feature off.
bogomipz 10y ago
Out or curiosity where would it show ads to you? When it was in sleep mode or while you browsing something? This is the fist I have heard of this. I find this outrageous.

by eric_h 10y ago

woobar 10y ago

If you don't mind me asking - how did you assert the quality of the picture? Did you use professional calibration or run some tests yourself?

eric_h 10y ago
Haha, certainly nothing so scientific. The picture just looks good to me, and compared with other TVs that I saw on display it was better than a number of the other options that were both cheaper and more expensive.

dawnerd 10y ago

Except you can't fully disable ads unless they've patched it in the last 6 or so months. I had a very long back and forth with them about it and they kept denying it until finally admitting that it was impossible to disable. Worse, they were using the notification bar to advertise gamefly. Not cool. Keep in mind the TV I had was their flagship first gen 4k tv. There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv.

merb 10y ago
> There's no excuse for putting ads on a nearly 5k dollar tv. there is no excuse for putting ads on any tv without explicitly state it.
eric_h 10y ago
I bought a Samsung 4k TV ~1 year ago, and turning off the Smart TV features (smart hub, or whatever they called it) most definitely turned off the ads. I'm not actually getting 4k video out of my TV, (since neither the apple tv or playstation support it), but I'm not terribly concerned about that (as I can't tell the difference at the distance I sit from my television). I wanted a dumb TV anyway, but costco didn't have any at the size I was looking for when I purchased it.
- dawnerd 10y ago
  Sounds like they may have fixed the options then. Before if you opted out of everything it would basically just ignore it. My solution was to just disconnect it from the internet. I haven't used their interface since and haven't had a need to since I have an nvidia shield which works wonderfully.

fucking_tragedy 10y ago

Holy shit, your appliance you paid for shows you ads. I thought ads on phones were bad 7 years ago. Wow.

eric_h 10y ago
Yeah, I was pretty miffed that my brand new $2k TV was showing me ads. Fortunately I didn't actually want a "Smart" TV, so I was content just turning that feature off.

bogomipz 10y ago

Out or curiosity where would it show ads to you? When it was in sleep mode or while you browsing something? This is the fist I have heard of this. I find this outrageous.